Realism interior. That's what I was looking for the great Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) in performing each of their works. Brancusi is considered not only one of the best sculptors Auguste Rodin with after Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), but also with Richard Serra is one of the most famous and influential sculptors of the twentieth century. He was born into a peasant family in Hobita humble district of Gorj, Romania, February 19, 1876. After completing his studies at the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova, Romania, between 1894 and 1898, he moved to Bucharest where he studied at the National School of Fine Arts from 1898 to 1901. To continue his studies of sculpture arrives in Paris in 1904. It is here where he met the sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) "the first modern" and Italian Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), who works between 1909 and 1910.

In his early works show a clear influence of the French Romantic sculptor Auguste Rodin, who reached a high knowledge of human anatomy which enabled him to perform one of his best works "The Bronze Age" (1877-1880), Rodin traveled to Italy to study the work of Michelangelo Buonarroti himself (1475-1564). While in Paris, Rodin proposed to Brancusi in his studio work, but this did not accept the offer and decided to start his own sculpture studio. He immediately headed for a very personal and realistic style, where there is a clear interest and admiration for the ancient and primitive art, but also by African culture, bringing his style to an extreme simplification of form, applying his works highly stylized forms , seeking only the essence of them. His early works are: The Kiss (1908), The Sleeping Muse (1910), Bird (1919), also its first column. The support or pedestal begins to be especially important in their work and become part of his work as a whole.

At present, there is an exact recreation of Constantin Brancusi studio was in a building adjacent to the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, designed by architect Renzo Piano, the new building contains the tools and most of the works Brancusi himself donated to the Museum , whose peculiarity is that they are arranged in the same position they had in the former studio of famed artist / En la actualidad, existe una recreación exacta del Estudio que tenía Constantin Brancusi en un edificio anexo al Centro Georges Pompidou de Paris proyectado por el arquitecto Renzo Piano; este nuevo edificio contiene las herramientas y gran parte de las obras que el propio Brancusi donó al Museo, y cuya particularidad radica en que están dispuestas en la misma posición que tenían en el antiguo taller del famoso artista

In 1934 the Local Authorities of Romania Constantin Brancusi suggested to a new memorial on the death of the young Romanian soldiers in the First World War, who had defended the city of Targu Jiu the German invasion. Brancusi accepted the job without thinking and immediately went to work. The now famous worldwide artist imagined a monument called "Constantin Brancusi Sculptural Ensemble". This monument is composed of three sculptures that lie along a straight line over a distance of 1 km. length called "Avenue of Heroes": it is situated perpendicular to the river Jiu. The Table of Silence and The Gate of the Kiss made ​​of stone are located on the west side of the huge park, while Endless Column of almost 30 meters high, was erected splendid in its opposite end to the east.

Endless Column by Constantin Brancusi of 29.33 meters was inaugurated on October 27, 1938, and consists of 15 modules, plus one-half of two cast-iron-plated zinc metal exterior with a special clear organic coating of protection. The majestic Brancusi Endless Column is inspired by the formula 1 / 2 + 15 + 1 / 2, this ratio is based on the "Law of Esthetic of Harmony" 1 - 2 to 4, which was discovered and perfected by Brancusi, in where 1 = 45 cm (the smaller side of the pyramid), 2 = 90 cm (the size of the largest side of the pyramid) and 4 = 180 cm (total height of two of the modules). A square section steel column connects all the modules hollow vertically as a whole, the aesthetic harmony of the Endless Column is described by the formula (2a): (4 a): (8 a) where a = 22.5 cm .

A contemporary architects of international renown such as Santiago Calatrava or Frank Gehry have been greatly influenced his work, in fact, Calatrava was inspired by Endless Column by Constantin Brancusi, 1938 to design the Obelisk of the Fund, which is located in Plaza Castilla, Madrid, Spain, and has 92 meters high at its highest point. Brancusi's monumental work has received several restorations for their conservation. Thus, since its completion in 1938, the Endless Column has been re-plated twice, once in 1965 and again in 1976, a third restoration was initiated in 1996 by the International Foundation Brancusi. The column was mounted back to back with the protection of lighting and ventilation in December 2000.

Other famous phrases and quotes by Constantin Brancusi:
« The brilliant simplicity in art is generally a complex solved »
« What is real is not the external form but the essence of things »
« Things are not difficult to do, what is difficult is to be put on them »